Fine Fethard friend

IF you are closer to God in a garden than anywhere else on earth, then the Glebe House in Fethard is on the fast track to Heaven.

Here, on a tidy estate of 16 acres, a good four acres are given over to gardens which have been tended organically for the past 20 years or so.

A large, walled-in garden has espaliered pears and apples growing on its warming walls, and in the middle, vegetables make their bed.